Jake here, racked my brain working to make this record that our buds over at Hausu Mountain just released for us. I have some copies Im going to sell on here. ADT is a project I started with Kyle Drouin and now ex-member J Dehann, soon adding Ben Billington on drums, Adam Tramposh on keys and Carlos Chavarria and sax. Might be worth it to just preface a listen by pointing two quotes I heard since its releease:'...skilled navigators of The Zone.' Colin Joyce over at Noisey'ADT last longer than DMT' -Alex JonesTHANK YOU!$15 PPD USAADT 'Insecurities'

"When psych rock and free jazz intermingle you might imagine a blissed-out sound rooted in the bohemian past, but Chicago group ADT’s wildly inventive record is as modern as it gets. With synthetic natural sounds (the wind, the rain), and a hat tip to experimental ambient, Insecurities takes the ingredients of jazz, adds a few secret spices and makes something entirely new. Moments of recognizable lounge jazz appear, only to be interrupted by Carlos Chavarria’s saxophone working against the other players, like a machete-wielding guide slashing through the free jazz jungle. On “Redream” each instrument vies for attention—I am reminded of that Planet Earth footage of penguins standing on their tippy toes to appear taller. Then there are mellow moments of calm relaxation that feel nearly forced in that ’80s keyboard and windchime way. But there is also cacophony, strung along by Drummer Ben Billington (of Quicksails), who lassos the peaks and valleys of free jazz into some sort of ordered chaos."–Ally-Jane Grossan for bandcamp's Seven Essential Releases

"Part of the reason that Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker has been such a reverberant cultural document is because of its primal mythos. There is a dangerous and heavily guarded place you can go to grant all your wishes, it suggests, but it might cost you everything. I hear a similar promise in most abstract jazz, that far beyond the grid of traditional Western melody and established rhythmic forms, there lies both the possibility of true transcendence and the threat of utter discord, chaos, and mental ruin. The Chicago explorers in ADT—anchored by the experimentalist Ben Baker Billington and armed with a hefty helping of electronic abstractions—prove on Insecurity that they’re skilled navigators of The Zone. They show off shortcuts between familiar melodies and dive into untrodden wilds with the confidence that they’ll always make it back to a more familiar path. If there is truth here—in the dense thickets of saxophone melodies and guitar leads that tangle around one another like vines in the underbrush—they’ll find their way to it." — Colin Joyce for Noisey's HEAVY ROTATION

Paradisians, it's the return of something we're trying to do! Starting this fall we're back with a string of releases and in true Lake Paradise fashion, we're bringing you three really very truly completely different artists who seemingly have no common thread other than good music that found its way to our decrepit Chicago coach house's front porch's bottom step, ya. And let us celebrate for a moment, because it really feels good to look at this display of a truly deep spectrum of sounds that inhabit the Chicago community. This time not all at once, but one after another.

First up is KD Drouin's electronic creature BANALANML, giving us a whirlwind of a tape he is calling Misantropics. Sounds. TONS of sounds. And away from it all. Gettin' lost, drifting further, one white noise patch at a time. Coming out next week, October 3rd! Drouin is hittin' these Europe spots with Last King Of Poland, are these islands? Get in touch if you want more info on where and when lakeparadiserecords@gmail.com.

DECEMBER 5TH a newer Chicago group called Fran, led by sing songwriter Maria Jacobson, debuts her first release More Enough. These set of songs really blew me away, right away. Very refreshing. Immediately recalling a 90's Aimee Mann obsession that turned into what I call Casual Window Addiction and the endless nostalgia machine rendering time our natural medical condition. Timeless tunes. There is even a VIDEO! More soon.

And finally, even deader into the winter, after four years of six packs and muscle relaxers, the tragic comedy country banger Sunshine Numbers from Double Morris finally sees the light of day! Somethin' we've been trying to reckon with for four years, almost. So many words cannot undescribe this album. A true shape with undetermined force. I think we were mainly waiting on a drawing of a frog. But any day now we should have a specific release date for this, I might make it my birthday January 22nd.

LAKE PARADISE hooks up with SOPHOMORE LOUNGE to bring you the much anticipated full-length album from Chicago's Wishgift. It's been a minute since their 2011 Folk Twain EP gouged our eyes out of their sockets but we have since popped them back in and are basically ready to gouged out whatever else we can. 7 brand new tracks PLUS 2 bonus tracks that will be available on a cassingle when you pre-order Wishgift's "Wishgift". It will make year end wish lists, it's on most wedding registries, goes great at an 11yo bday get down, look for it in the basement with the lights off, ask for a background check and you'll notice most captchas are now WISHGIFT. FULL ALBUM RELEASE DATE FEBRUARY 18TH 2017.

BABY BIRDS DON'T DRINK MILK 'DROOPY MCCOOL' CS NOW AVAILABLE FROM LAKE PARADISE RECORDS>> IF YOU SAW THEIR SET AT ROCKTOBERFEST 2016 YOU WERE RIPPED APART AND PROBABLY AREN'T WITH US > REST IN SPACE PIECES >> FOR EVERYONE ELSE >>>>> Droopy McCool is the newest set of dome drone standards from NYC head-tilters BABY BIRDS DON'T DRINK MILK. Imagine- roaming an abandon space station inhabited by one lost and raving creature, DROOPY MCCOOL. You enter a compression chamber. For several minutes you endure endless whirring. The growing, sharp smell of acid makes you faint. A blast from far away awakens you. Surrounded in nauseatingly fluorescent corridor light, a faceless floating figure hovers above you with paralyzing apprehension, sending you into hypnosis. You follow it down endless corridors, floating for hours, days. Infinite rusted unmarked doors, the air becomes more and more dull, a shoe floats by, perpetual uncertainty. Dire terror cementing you to a new reality minute by minute, second by second, you are trapped spinning in the chapel of unending drone.

A split double cassette directed by multi-instrumentalist and bicycle-enthusiast Rob Frye. While the Flux Bikes tape explores the melodic and hypnotic realms of poly-rhythms extracted from bicycle wheel, flute and electronics, the Sueñolas tape paints old-world pastoral impressions with help from guitarist Bill MacKay and violist Whitney Johnson. Edition of 100 with riso printed jcards.

Flux Bikes rotates around the idea of bicycle wheels as percussion instruments, incorporating West African rhythms, electro-acoustic techniques, and improvisation.

"Rob Frye is known as an multi-instrumentalist for Chicago groups such as CAVE and Bitchin’ Bajas. He has been a constant presence in Chicago’s underground scene, specifically with improvisational ensembles. The collective El is the Sound of Joy was a constant figure in the noise underground, and eventually gained some notoriety in jazz circles. A constant collaborator, Rob is able to give a unique voice in a variety of different kinds of ensembles, playing with poly-rhythms and sounds in his bicycle-based project Flux Bikes, experimenting with improvisational devices in Exoplanet, or exploring textures in Bitchin’ Bajas, Frye stands out, and we’re honored to have him this month. He’s joined by a cast of talented friends including Dan Bitney (Tortoise), Ben Lamar Gay (AACM), and many more." -Hideout Inn, Chicago, IL

Rob Frye has gained notoriety over the last couple of years for the malleable approach to musical hypnosis and melodic beauty he’s brought to bothBitchin Bajas and Cave, but the weekly February residency at the Hideout that begins tonight will show there’s more to his aesthetic. Perhaps nothing demonstrates his ideals better than his project Flux Bikes, which he refers to as a “social practice.” Until recently I knew that this venture generated certain sounds by using contact mikes to amplify different bicycles parts as percussion, but I never knew how integral the bike was. Frye designs each performance as a kind of sustainable ritual by first riding to the show and then turning the bike into an instrument. The practice has extended well beyond Chicago, as he’s toured on wheels throughout Spain and between Austin and New Orleans—during which he was outfitted with a solar-powered sound system. This makes for a lovely backstory, but the music Frye creates in this manner measures up to the method. As heard on his 2014 cassette Prototype (Catholic Tapes), directed by a keen sense of dynamics, he builds mesmerizing percussive grooves that convey a strangely enveloping warmth akin to West African music, with passages of flute, saxophone, bass clarinet, and guitar beautifully floating over the loops. For this performance Frye will be joined by percussionist Dan Bitney of Tortoise fame, and Kyle Drouin will deliver abstract video accompaniment." — Peter Margasak

Finally! it is here. It took too long, but we know that all you patient people have just been meditating in the meantime, counting to four over and over in your mind for the past six months, to the metaphorical tune of banjos frame drums tambourines, just trying to tame the eagerness of when you can click the BUY NOW button on the DANIEL HIGGS + MICHAEL ZERANG 12" release page here on this newly revamped Lake Paradise website. The time is here. Two of the USA's apostles of music come together for an intense session of banjo and frame-drum shredding, with a touch of tambourine and throat. Collaborations are abundant these days but this one shows extraordinary communication between two very proficient players who are deeply rooted in their rituals and traditions. Hypnotic reverence burns the wax, smells good. Engineered by Emmett Kelly, edition of 500 available with risograph printed artwork by Daniel Higgs.

"Just Another Thing That Got Ruined is a tough record to review. Every comparison I come up with seems reductive, every descriptor a cop-out, and so I reach super-deep into the ol’ bag of tricks and the best I can come up with is… Detachment Kit and Ganglians gang-banging Fat History Month while Erode & Disappear and Capillary Action watch? I’m at a loss for wordz (the phrase ‘post-emo’ even popped up, though I redacted it; this parentheses doesn’t exist!), and thankful for the privilege. Mines keep a low profile, yet there’s seemingly nothing they can’t do. They’ve got guitar theatrics, full, rich, mahogany melodies, and the percussionist needed to link the sprawl together. And when they let-fly they go KABOOM when you least expect it, viciously leaping into throat-rippin’ riffs and speed-strumming Mogwai would be proud of. I get the creeping feeling the folks behind this have had fingers in other pies I’ve enjoyed, but I won’t speculate (such is the devil’s business). What I will do is guarantee most indie-rockers will be squarely in the ‘hell yes’ category when they let Just Another Thing That Got Ruined into their stolid routine. One-hundred sweet-looking pink copies, 200 black copies, all thick as a herdsman’s cock."-Tiny Mix Tapes

Lake Paradise is offering up cassette duplication services for cheap! 100 thirty minutes and under cassettes for $60! You supply the blank tapes. Over 30 minutes will be prorated, hit us up and we'll talk logistics, lakeparadiserecords@gmail.com.

A little bit about our duplication process:

We believe real-time dubbing is the way to go. STEREO WAV files are sent to our DIGI002 interface which has 8 outs and sends STEREO WAV files to our five high end, well maintained cassette decks. All done in real-time. We are constantly surveying the meters and their levels, while simultaneously scanning the previous dubs on a separate boombox to ensure quality of dub. The cassette decks used:

Luxman k-105Nakamichi CR-1ASONY TC-RX410JVC TD-W505Technics RS-TR155

Obviously these are all different decks so the quality of the dubs will be a little different from deck to deck, but considering our price difference AND considering you're wanting people to listen to a CASSETTE TAPE, I'd say the slight inconsistency is worth your time and money. Hit us up!!

We're havin another party with good electronic zones. Quicksails droppin' an LP on Spectrum Spools, Night Terror has a new tape out on Living Tapes, Bitchin Bajas just popped out an LP with Permanent Records, Wildcats are gonna set off car alarms- it's a good time to be putting out music, lets chill and celebrate!!

Since the release of his 7" with us, J Fernandez arranged a live line-up that grooves hard! Scope the crafty, psychedelic guitar work that swims through moogie Stereolab wonderland tones, kaleidoscoping The Whistler into a hypnotic trance last Wednesday.